Good mentoring: fostering excellent practice in higher education

Good Mentoring is an in-depth analysis of the way mentors transmit not only knowledge and skills, but guiding values that support good work and social responsibility on to those they guide. Profiling three lineages of scientists passing their professional skills, values, and practices down through generations,the book reveals what constitutes successful mentoring in science and beyond.Stemming from a first-of-its-kind study by the GoodWork Project--a cooperative enterprise by Harvard, Stanford, and Claremont Graduate University--the bookshows how the cultivation of professional ethics and excellence depends on teachers and mentors and the learning environments they foster. This in-depth exploration of the social, psychological, and educative dimensions of mentoring provides fresh insights into the mentoring process. It answers the questions: Are values and practices that underlie good work being passed from one generation to the next? Which elements are absorbed and practiced by the younger generation? How does this process occur? What relationship patterns and practices support the perpetuation of work that is both excellent and responsible? The authors report finding 10 key dimensions of supportive mentoring: balance between intellectual freedom and guidance; availability and involvement; maintenance of a supportive atmosphere; providing resources that communicate investment in the student; positive feedback that is respectful, specific, and encouraging; academic help; treatment as an equal collaborator; interest in the student's work; support for the student's future career; and individualized attention to the student.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-18963-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 10/06/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés